If your audio midi setup takes an age to load, and you get the message ‘the midi server cant be opened’

it might be to do with protools.
i run protools 8
and osx lion.

everything worked fine if I was plugged into my protools interface, but when the interface was unplugged, I got the above error.

but when my protools hardware was unplugged I couldnt open audio midi setup, and any app that I opened took an age because it had to wait for the timeout to occur because it couldnt find the protools hardware.